The Time Tunnel (Volume 2)

The Time Tunnel (Volume Two).


Starring: Robert Colbert, James Darren, and Lee Meriwether

Created and Produced by Irwin Allen

Directors: Sobey Martin, Nathan Juran, Harry Harris, Herschel Daughterty, & William Hale


As a fan of Science fiction, I must admit a certain feeling of nostalgia for the television series and movies that have made the genre what it is today. Television series such as Star Trek and movies like Logan’s Run have helped turn Science Fiction into the mainstream and widely popular media genre we know and love today. There is one series however that is often overlooked, but probably should be mentioned in the same breath as the pioneering Science Fiction television shows of the era. Irwin Allen’s creation, The Time Tunnel, has its own place in the evolution of Science Fiction on television, and it is packaged beautifully in this four disc DVD set.

The Time Tunnel originally aired from 1966-1967, and starred Robert Colbert and James Darren, who Science Fictions fans should recognize as he also played Vic Fontaine on several seasons of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. The show was created and produced by television legend Irwin Allen who was the creative force behind such shows Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He also had a hand in creating such classic movies The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

The show follows the exploits of Dr. Tony Newman (Darren) and Dr. Doug Phillips (Colbert); two scientists working on a project to perfect time travel. In their haste to prove the project’s effectiveness, the two scientists enter the time tunnel and are swept away into the Vortex of Time. They become trapped in this vortex and are constantly shifted backwards and forewords through time unable to return home.